> “The exact method is unclear from the abstract, but if the rats were fasted for one day, this is equivalent to an approximately 3 to 4 week fast in humans! So it’s not applicable to the 24-hour or 48-hour fasts practised by humans on common fasting diets.
This article takes a preliminary paper on Rats and turns it into a sensational article; the paper is titled “Intermittent fasting for three months decreases pancreatic islet mass and increases insulin resistance in Wistar rats”
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[ 5.5 ms ] story [ 14.1 ms ] thread> “The exact method is unclear from the abstract, but if the rats were fasted for one day, this is equivalent to an approximately 3 to 4 week fast in humans! So it’s not applicable to the 24-hour or 48-hour fasts practised by humans on common fasting diets.
http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-unpubli...
Full abstract: https://www.endocrine-abstracts.org/ea/0056/ea0056p519
The full paper isn’t out yet it seems.